Johann Hari in today’s Independent argues in support of women’s rights in Muslim societies and an end to the reliance on Middle Eastern oil which has often clouded the judgment of European governments in their engagement with societies where gender and other human rights abuses are rife.
The Metro carries a story on the comments made by Admiral Lord West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter Terrorism, to the Commons Defence Committee meeting yesterday on ‘UK national security and resilience’ where he said that ending radicalization among...
London Islamic Cultural Society, Haringey The Haringey Independent mentions the open day organised by the Haringey Muslim Network & Safety Forum in partnership with the London Islamic Cultural Society to shake off negative impressions and misconceptions of Islam by inviting the local...
The Morecambe Visitor carries an interesting Q&A with Pat Magee, a former IRA activist, and Jo Berry, following the staging of a play on the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984. The play entitled ‘The Bomb’, tells part of the story of Pat Magee and Jo Berry, whose...
Paisley’s Daily Express and the Birmingham Mail cover events taking place across the UK by Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) in promotion of its new DVD on Islamophobia which forms part of the organisation’s campaign to rid football of racial and, now, religious hatred. To find out...
A couple of stories today in The Sun, Daily Mail and Metro on the harangues of Omar Bakri Mohammed that have been posted on an internet site run by supporters of Al Muhajiroun. Mohammed riles against an X Factor single that is intended to raise funds for the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity, a...
The British Humanist Association (BHA) is considering placing posters on London buses that state ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’. The posters have the support of Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, who said that “Religion...
A letter by Joan McTigue, an independent councillor of Beechwood ward in Middlesbrough to the Sunday Sun criticising Middlesbrough Labour Council’s spending of £400,000 on ‘helping Muslims integrate’. Councillor McTigue writes that the integration of the Irish and Scots cost, ‘not one...
Philip Lewis, author of ‘Young, British and Muslim’ and Interfaith Advisor to the Bishop of Bradford, throws his weight behind objectors to the new mosque development project in east London claiming it would create a ghetto and be vulnerable to extremism. At a meeting organised by...
In an interview with The Times (18 Oct) Phil Woolas, the newly appointed Immigration Minister speaks of his lifelong quest to defeat racism and the challenges he faces in his new ministerial role. He talks of the need to reduce levels of immigration to the UK as the BNP and a looming recession...
